Optical Storage - CD-ROM Installation - Lab 1


DIRECTIONS: Follow the steps below. Instructor signoff: ______________________

PART A - CD Burner Installation

1. Install a CD burner.  Internal or external.
2. Install appropriate CD burner software.
3. Create a CD-R disk with data on it.
4. Create a CD-RW disk with data on it.
5. Remove some of the data on the CD-RW disk.
6. Write some more data to the CD-RW disk.

PART B - CD-ROM Installation

1. Install an internal CD-ROM drive
2. Read a CD-R disk with data on it.
3. Attempt to read a CD-RW disk with data on it.  (You will not be able to).
2. Install UDF reader so that the CD-ROM drive can read a CD-RW with data on it.
3. Demonstrate to an instructor that you can read data that is on a CD-RW disk with a CD-ROM drive.